Aug 08
Dave Georgeson of Gaia Online presents their upcoming flash based MMO
Dave Georgeson has been making games now for 20 years.
He has concentrated on mostly high-end, hard-core multiplayer games such as “PlanetSide” and”Tribes
2″.He is now at Gaia Online making a flash-based MMO
for a huge teen community site (Gaia Online).
Why? In his own words:
1) Creative freedom in design.
2) I strongly believe in the success potential of the marriage between
social sites and MMOs.
3) There are already 6 milllion active customers using Gaia Online on
a regular basis…and they will all *at least* look at the game in the
first week or so after launch, which most of you realize is a gigantic
opportunity for critical mass in the game.
4) A chance to do something completely wacky and different, while
still providing deep gameplay, for an audience that is 55% female, 45%
male.
Working with Flash and Java to make a game like this has been
challenging and it’s resulted in a very different sort of MMO, not
just because of graphics, but because of technology and direction of
design.
2) I strongly believe in the success potential of the marriage between
social sites and MMOs.
3) There are already 6 milllion active customers using Gaia Online on
a regular basis…and they will all *at least* look at the game in the
first week or so after launch, which most of you realize is a gigantic
opportunity for critical mass in the game.
4) A chance to do something completely wacky and different, while
still providing deep gameplay, for an audience that is 55% female, 45%
male.
Working with Flash and Java to make a game like this has been
challenging and it’s resulted in a very different sort of MMO, not
just because of graphics, but because of technology and direction of
design.
The game’s original info website is at http://mmo.gaiaonline.com/
P.S. The name of the game has finally been announced. It’s “zOMG!” (yes…small “z” and yes…”!” at the end.) The official website is now “zomg.com”